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HIV Community Engagement Forum 2022: Ins & Outs of HIV Testing

HIV Community Engagement Forum 2022: Ins & Outs of HIV Testing

 

The HIV Community Engagement Forum is jointly organised by the Infectious Disease Research and Training Office (IDRTO) and the National HIV Programme (NHIVP) at NCID. This forum aims to raise awareness on HIV stigma and discrimination and combat misconceptions surrounding HIV in Singapore.

 

Who should attend

Everyone is welcome, especially:

  • Healthcare workers and students
  • People who work with persons living with HIV

 

Event details

Date: Saturday, 24 September 2022

Time: 10 AM to 12 PM via Zoom Webinar

 

Programme

TimeTopicSpeaker
1000

Who and why you should get HIV testing

 

Dr Choy Chiaw Yee

Consultant, National HIV Programme, NCID

1030What is HIV testing

A/Prof Sophia Archuleta

Director, National HIV Programme, NCID

Ms Sumita Banerjee

Executive Director, Action for AIDS Singapore

Dr Jonathan Ti

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tan & Partners Clinic

1120What to do after knowing your result

Dr Wong Chen Seong

Deputy Director, National HIV Programme, NCID 

1145Questions & Answers
1200Closing Remarks

 

Registration

Registration is now open!

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For any questions, please email training@ncid.sg.

 

Who and why you should get HIV testing ​

 

Dr Choy Chiaw Yee

Consultant, National HIV Programme, NCID

Dr Choy Chiaw Yee is a Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She received her medical training at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and gained membership to the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2016. Having an active interest in HIV clinical care and research, she is a member of the National HIV Programme and Deputy Director of NCID Clinical HIV Programme. She is also actively involved in education and is a Lee Kong Chian Medicine adjunct teaching faculty and NUS medical faculty member.

What is HIV testing ​

 

A/Prof Sophia Archuleta

Director, National HIV Programme, NCID

A/Prof Sophia Archuleta is Director of the National HIV Programme, National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the National University Hospital, Singapore. She is also a clinician educator and serves as core faculty of the National University Health System Infectious Diseases Senior Residency Programme. Her clinical expertise, and primary interest, is in the care of people living with HIV and its associated conditions.

A/Prof Archuleta joined the Division of Infectious Diseases of the National University Hospital in Singapore in 2008 where she established and led the HIV Programme until 2017. She was appointed Director of the National HIV Programme, National Centre for Infectious Diseases in 2018. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore, and serves in various educational leadership roles and national committees on graduate medical education. She is active in teaching learners across health professions and the entire medical education continuum.

 

Ms Sumita Banerjee

Executive Director, Action for AIDS Singapore

As its Executive Director, Sumita leads the team at Action for AIDS Singapore. She has more than 20 years of experience in public health having worked at national and global levels. In the course of her career, Sumita has conceptualised programmes and provided technical guidance to sexual health programmes in over 30 countries, working in close partnership with multilateral agencies, national governments and civil society organisations (CSOs). She has also authored several learning resources on HIV and sexual health in partnership with academic institutions. She has an MSc in Health Policy and a master's degree in Social Sciences.

 

Dr Jonathan Ti

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tan & Partners Clinic

Dr Jonathan Ti graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2011 before moving to Singapore to further his medical training. He completed his postgraduate qualifications for Membership to the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 2015 and obtained his certificate in Men's Health and Andrology in 2017.

Dr. Ti underwent training for several years with the Internal Medicine Residency Program in tertiary and community hospitals across the country. He was exposed to a wide range of subspecialty postings, including Endocrinology, Renal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, Cardiology and Emergency Medicine among many others which have given him invaluable experience.

His special interests are in Men's Health and Sexual Health, as well as Endocrine and Metabolic / Weight Loss disease management. He has taken on a role in developing guidelines for the Blueprint to End HIV in Singapore (Community Subsector), and has presented clinical research at several international conferences, focusing his efforts now on strengthening primary healthcare in Singapore.

What to do after knowing your result

 

 

 

Dr Wong Chen Seong

Deputy Director, National HIV Programme, NCID 

Dr Wong Chen Seong is a Senior Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Deputy Director of the National HIV Programme, and Director of the NCID HIV Clinical Programme. He is actively involved in HIV clinical care and research, with interests in the socio-behavioural determinants of HIV/STI, HIV/STI prevention, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), innovations in HIV service delivery such as telemedicine, as well as HIV and ageing and co-morbidity.

Dr Wong is also actively involved in both undergraduate and post-graduate medical education and training, and is a Clinical Lecturer at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, as well as an Associate Programme Director of the National Healthcare Group Internal Medicine Residency Programme.

 


















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